The Windstorm logo is pretty easy to spot on the spine of the book. Unfortunately, I didn't see any others. But they don't really publish much in the way of fantasy. Kevin and I and a few others, but I don't know if the others are titles anyone has heard of here.

It was a real nice surprise. If they are not on the shelf at your B & N, maybe you want to ask them why?????

A Really Big Deal!

It's Sunday evening and I was sitting with my son in the backyard having some sushi and watching the birds with our bird binoculars. It was about 7:30 and the air was beautiful, the birds were feeding and singing and life was good. We had just spent the afternoon getting all the feeders ready and filled, cutting flowers, pruning bushes, planting all the summer flowers and plants, hanging new bird houses, and generally enjoying each other's company and nature. The phone rang.

My publicist called to tell me that Barnes and Noble's small press buyer had just contacted her by mail (she was at a book convention all weekend and hadn't opened her mail) and informed her that after reading my first book, The Twins, they have decided to carry my books in their stores!!!! They are placing an order now and putting the first book in 100 stores. If they do well, they will purchase the other two.

Not a clue. They just placed the order so the books haven't even been shipped yet. If I can find out, I will let you know. But, since they buy from distributors, Ingram and Baker and Taylor, it's unlikely that I will ever know where they ship them to. They know their demographics and which stores have significant fantasy readershipts though.

I just listened to the interview for the first time myself. I honestly didn't remember saying half of what I said, but I did enjoy listening to it. I feel relieved somewhat. Thanks all you guys at Dragon Page for the opportunity and thanks particularly to Summer for getting this set up and seeing it happen.

Now that you've broken the ice with your first interview, have you found a new profession?

I was hoping to give this a listen tonight. Guess it'll have to wait in the moring. For those who don't know, visit ipodder.com or ipodderx.com and you can download the shows automatically. I saw it sitting in ipodder even before I saw this post.

I'm going to go to bed so the morning gets here quicker and I can get my fix of Da Dragon Page.

P.S. Hey Summer, yell at Mike for me please. Accoring to his 'doughnut' contest, I was supposed to e-mail him and get some sound bites. I'm waiting. Should I e-mail him again?

I for one have become accustomed to seeing more interesting products coming out of the smaller presses, so I do what I can to get more than just the same big names on the show (although the attention that the big names can draw in is nice, too